The Beauty of Intervention

摘要

As big as new york city is, it is composed of many small neighborhoods. I grew up in the borough of Queens, NY, in a section called Richmond Hill that b6r-ders on another section called Kew Gardens. When you're 10 years old, as I was in 1964, no matter where you are, the known world is really no larger than a bike ride. The library, the corner store, the hobby shop and schoolyard marked the four corners of the earth. On March 13, 1964, some 5,000 feet north of my bedroom window, Kitty Genovese was raped and murdered in Kew Gardens. A man named Winston Moseley stabbed her first at around 3:15 am as she walked from her parked car to her apartment. She screamed and neighbors heard her. Lights went on. One man yelled to leave her alone and the attacker actually retreated as instructed.